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A publication dedicated to bringing out the stories behind the writers themselves. A place of autobiographies. Types of personal stories include introductions, memoirs, self-reflections, and self-love.

About Me — Wayne A. Boatwright

5 min readNov 27, 2020

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What other people take for granted I refuse to know for certain.

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By Omid Mokri, 2019 (charcoal on cloth)

Curiosity brought you to this post, welcome. Before I share the scope and timbre of my writings, let me share a few adventures I’ve experienced as these may pique your interest to read on and sample my writings….

I have:

Born to an age of adventure in the physical world (see more of my ‘adventures’ at the bottom), I now write of my adventures in the psychic realm.

Free of the twin distractions of mobility and being ‘connected,’ to the ALL-THING of a smartphone at San Quentin, I spent a fair amount of time THINKING. Yes, I studied too — ranging from ancient Greeks and Enlightenment philosophers to recent neuro-psychological research. This study provided me with jargon to reveal my inner world and how I see our modern society. To share these psychic insights, however, is most challenging. You see, I refuse to know for certain what others take for granted. To my surprise, the world is a much different place than I once thought. New mental constructs are both difficult to formulate and consume. The time it takes to ‘set the table’ with context bores people and you lose their attention. Still, my Medium Posts are an attempt to do just that (see topics below).

We each inhabit a story, describing where we are, where we are going, and the actions we must undertake to get from the former to the latter. These inhabited stories are predicated on an underlying value system (as we must want to be where we are going more than we value where we are). In addition, they are frames of reference, allowing us to perceive … and determine emotional significance. Jordan Peterson

PRISON

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

FAMILY

PERSONAL JOURNEY TO DISCOVER SELF

FAILING CULTURAL NARRATIVE

POLITICS

I have (continued):

  • Taken my love to an abandoned Angkor Wat at the end of a civil war and seen the temples in solitude with only a guide.
  • Partied with Stevie Wonder and appeared in a Cass Beer ad in Seoul Korea while living as an ex-pat for six years.
  • Explored Kyoto’s gardens at dawn.
  • Danced all night in bodypaint at Koh Phi Phi’s Full Moon Party.
  • Taken a 737 full of friends to Marfa Texas celebrate a friend’s 40th at the Judd Foundation.
  • Spent two hours with Dave Mason on his tour bus trading stories of world travel, his fifty years on the road, and his best friend, Jimi Hendrix.
  • While born in obscurity to a single mother in HUD rent-control housing, still graduated from Cornell Law School and pass the California Bar on the first attempt.

Free of the twin distractions of mobility and community, I spent my time pondering deep concepts — one was survival on the Main Line in an infamously famous and brutal prison, San Quentin.

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Early in my San Quentin years 2013
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Father’s Day 2019

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About Me Stories
About Me Stories

Published in About Me Stories

A publication dedicated to bringing out the stories behind the writers themselves. A place of autobiographies. Types of personal stories include introductions, memoirs, self-reflections, and self-love.

Wayne Boatwright
Wayne Boatwright

Written by Wayne Boatwright

Father, attorney, essayist, autodidact, and active manager who found the courage to create through the chrysalis of San Quentin prison.